IBM Engineering Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
good culture good communication helpful team cross team collaboration
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challenging work, but with significant time given to focus on quality of deliverable product.
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Very welcome, people are willing to support you, people are seen as assets
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
I appreciate the transparency provided by the leadership team. I feel as though I'm kept "in the loop" as things are changing. I also appreciate the opportunities that I've had to attend off-site events where I was able to meet members of my team as well as others outside of my team, in person.
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Leadership team always try to involve you into the initiatives they are taking.
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Our leaders communicate with a good combination of empathy, passion, and pragmatism.
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Transparency knowledge vision communication understanding
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Alignment on the ambition and general Clarity of vision on what's needed to achieve.
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Leadership needs to align internally on vision. Right now there are often divergent opinions in the leadership group making it impossible for teams to deliver.
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Diversity and Inclusion that isn't just marketing in disguise
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The leadership team needs to stop patting each other on the back and start patting the employees with better benefits, pay, and training opportunities. IBM pays at the least 30% less than competitors for the same job.
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Don't leave out women's rights if you're loudly supporting everyone else's rights. Maybe just fire people (and pay severance) than redeploying people into jobs they don't want
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IBM's lack of a substantive response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the dissolution of reproductive rights across the U.S. has been very, very disheartening. As employees we have repeatedly raised our concerns to the executives and have been all but brushed off.
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
RSUs are good along with the base
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Good 401k plan and competitive overall pay
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Base is a bit low for similar companies based in the Silicon Valley. Nothing great but not bad.
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Competitive pay + RSU is a huge plus for me
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The RSU awards are the best part of the compensation package.
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Comparing to the market I would say
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re-leveling and/or promotions doesn't go even one exceeding exceptions and it leaves one with feeling that it doesn't matter if you over perform or not because you gonna end up to the same results and one career seems doesn't matter
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Location based pay as employed by HashiCorp is a discriminatory practice based on the old world where jobs are tied to location. The fact that my work isn't being valued as highly as someone living across the border is unfair and disheartening. It perpetuates existing inequalities.
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I can appreciate that Hashicorp tries to be fiscally conservative, however I don't think haggling over 10 grand for a yearly salary is what would make or break Hashicorp. If it did, then they really don't know how to handle money.
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Region based pay is a terrible idea. You have extremely skilled people, with the same expenses as the U.S. who get paid 1/2 as much.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
My teammates are kind and eager to collaborate. I feel supported and as though my opinions/input matters, even though I am relatively new. This is one of the best teams I've been a part of in my career.
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Interactive, trying to solve challenges.
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caring responsive teamwork culture responsible knowledgeable
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Smart, dedicated, not inured (still passionate).
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My team is very approachable and everyone wishes to help each other grow further. Its a mutually supportive system which encourages interaction
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
some are extremely negative people
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Within the CIO, the average technical aptitude leaves much to be desired.
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There is no sense of camaraderie. We are all mercenaries.
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There is a lot of unwarranted arrogance among the engineers at hashicorp. Things are often dramatically overengineered without proper testing.
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Company has a culture of having too many meetings, everyone behaves as a senior executive and few people actually gets work done
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
There are too many new learnings which are good for my career.
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Everyone cares about the way they communicate and engage with each-other.
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responsible polite being nice communication
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The culture seems to welcome learning and acceleration of each other in a way where everyone can grow as they'd like
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The inclusiveness is the most positive aspect of the company culture.
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
We need a new COO and organization. Everyone defaults to Slack messages and impromptu Zoom calls, nothing is written down or documented.
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More HR activities that integrates coworkers
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I recently added to IBMer group due to a goverment changes in my country but worked as non-IBMer for 1 year before. It's new to me the IBM culture, I started to understand the meaning of IBM culture and I liked so much. I have no complaints at this day.
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provide some goodies and other small benefits to keep connected with the company
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the controlling and coercive leadership style of my direct supervisor does not inspire me, but rather it makes me feel like I need to change role or potentially leave IBM. I find it difficult to be myself and contribute to my fullest
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What did you like most about the interview process?
It was based on principles.
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promising future: that's what drives us
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done by staff & managers
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Honest feedback loop and guidance
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It was very straightforward. "This is what the role entails, it fits your skill set as discussed, any questions?"
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Collaborating with my team and solving difficult problems.
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Meeting people and solving problems
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learning and contributing to the product
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GSD. Leading through change and transformation for maturity and predictability.
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Being part of a critical product in the space and having coworkers that are pleasant to interact with
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
There's just too much going on all the time. I'm overloaded and pretty sure everyone else is too. Too many objectives all over the place with no concerns for whether they're accomplished or not.
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Fix compensation and leveling - HashiCorp significantly under-levels/under-titles engineers across the entire R&D organization relative to the rest of the industry, and equity compensation is quite poor for a public company.
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Given IBM's largely apathetic response to the dissolution of reproductive rights in the U.S., it is hard to feel excited about going to work for a company which does not seem to care about the basic rights of its employees.
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HashiCorp is losing steam because its only focused on integrating with internal products.
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What do you like best about your company?
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Better vision
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